The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-26
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA. FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.

GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE
Forty Cars Laden With Cotton
Shipped From Quitnan to savan
nah-A Covey of Thirty or Forty
Turkeys that Flew Away With 8
Man in the Early Days of Sumter
County.
Newnan's city tax is only 50 so ON the
thousand.
The election for Mayor and Councilmen OF
Elberton occurs to-day.
Seventeen hundred and fifty bales Of cot
ton have been received and sold at Newman
up to date.
An effort is being made by some of the
young men to organize Young Mems
Christian Association i'll ValdoSta.
Hon. A. L. Mitchell is mentioned in con
nection with the office of Mayor, in case of
the decination of Hon. Asbury H. Hodgson.
Uncle BILLY Collins, of Toccoa, has
probably owned more yoke of oxen than
any man in North Georgia. He has owned
126 yoke
Newman and Coweta county will pay be-
tween four and five thousand dollars for the
education of her daughters in Macon and
LAGRANGE this year.
Capt B. NJ Turner, Supervisor of the
Postal Service for several States of the South
expects to extend the mail service over the
eastern extension of the Americas, Preston
and Lumpllin, to Abbeviile.
A few nights ago the store of E. E. You
mans, of Nashville, was entered by break
ing the lock on the folding doors, and two
suits of fine clothes, several pairs of shoes,
pocket knives aud some tobacco were taken.
Two trains, consisting of twenty cars
EACH started from the Quitman depot for
Savannah, one on Friday last and the other
on Monday. They were loaded with about
500 bales of cotton each and were worth in
the neighborhood of S5C, 0Oo
Hon. John B. nner, one of CAROLS model
farmers, says he has forty hogs, and num-
Der of those he will kill this fall will weigh
$50 pounds now. He says he will kill 5000
pounds this season. He keeps his hogs in
pasture, and says he hardly ever has sick
hog or hog to die with cholera.
j. NJ lifts Clubhouse, on his Sand Hill
place, a mile east of Albany, was destroyed
by fire on Thursday night and the fire was
undoubtedly the work of an incendiary.
Mr. Tiff estimates his loss at about 800.
This is the second incendiary fire that Mr..
Tiff has bad on his place within year 1t
will be remembered that his barn was
OooVfD9S lioo otJ "lllo ago.
Last week was a remarkable week in the
history of the Superior Courts of Ebert
county. From Monday morning till Satur-
day noon sixty cases were disposed Of
thirty-two civil and twenty eight criminal
An average of eleven cases per day. There
was no unwarranted haste 10 the trans
action of the business of court. Each case
was awarded sufficient time and attention.
Last Wednesday a little negro boy
named Tooke. was fooling around the gin
of Joel Engligh, in Macon county, and was
told by Englis,'s little son to keep bis
hands out while the gin was running or it
would hurt him. Later the boy went to
the gin and stuck his right hand in on the
saws He gave a yell, but left his hand
wrist and most of his fingers in the gin box
with the cotton. His arm was sawed into
hash meat nearly up to his elbow.
Edmond Montgomery died on Nick Jor-
dams place, near the county line of Schley,
last Monday, aged 102 years. He was an
African chief of the Askari tribe, and was
taken to Virginia from Africa, about 1901
when he was a stalwart young man. He
had large family in Virginia. and when he
died he left his third wife and about
twenty-five children i'll Georgia His grand
children and great-grandchildre are I'M
known and unnumbered. He had remarka-
bic good sight and health, and never took
like ivory, and every one in his head at time
of death.
Washington Chronicle: On last Tuesday
morning, Frank Hardeman left Washington
tSa for Philadelphia in company with
Col. Wilberforce Daniel, who was on the Gov.
ernors staff. When he got to Atlanta Frank
was made a full fedged member of Gov.
Gordon's staff, and as no privates were al
lowed in that body he was dubbed Col Har-
deman, and as such was introduced to Mr..
Cleveland. On the day when the various
delegations were to pass in review before
President Cleveland the young Colonel rode
with Hon. Robert Failigant, of Savan-
nah, near the head of the procession and
though his steed was rather fiery he man
aged 10 keep his seat very gracefully until
they approached the balcony on which
the President stood. The shouts and cheers
were too much for Frank and he turned his
hungry gaze toward the Chief Magistrate of
our nation. The horse saw his chances and
in the twin1ling of an eye our young Geor-
gia hero was shaking the Quaker city dust
from his Sunday clothes, a sadder but a
wiser youth, and consoling himself that he
at least had done something to distinguish
him from the vulgar throng around him.
An Americas man says that when Sumter
county was first settled man named Bal
1ord lived somewhere in the swamps of the
Muckalee WIN MS wife. In those DAYS the
woods were full of wild turkeys, and Bal
lard conceived an idea that he would cap
ture big lot of them and sell them in
Macon. He built large turkey pen and
covered it over leaving trench for the
fowls to enter in, baited it with corn and
went home. Two or three days after he
went to the pen and found it full of big, fat
turkeys; probably thirty or forty. Ballard
was afraid to loosen the pen to take them
out, so he went home, got rope and his
wife 10 assist. him, and returned for his
birds. When he got to his pen he
crawled in at the trench where the
turkeys had entered, after tying one
end of the rope around his body, and tied
each one of the turkeys by the feet with the
other part OF the rope. He then babe his
wife to remove the top of the pen, and
struggled out. As soon as the turkeys found
they could expand their wings they began
70 flutter and fly, and soon Ballard was as
high as the trees, yelling in fright TO his
wife below 10 save him The poor woman
wrung her hands and followed as the scared
birds mounted higher and got swifter in
their flight She soon lost sight of her hus-
band, and as he has nevermore been heard
Of, she bundled up and returned to her pa
rents in North Carolina. He says that this
Is true statement of the captives capturing
their captor, but he don't know what be-
came OF Ballard
FLORIDA.